"The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind."

-- Livy

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“Recorded history is wrong. It’s wrong because the voiceless have no voice in it.”
“That we can never know," answered the wolf angrily. "That's for the future. But what we can know is the importance of what we owe to the present. Here and now, and nowhere else. For nothing else exists, except in our minds. What we owe to ourselves, and to those we're bound to. And we can at least hope to make a better future, for everything.”
“A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.”
“The miracles of Jesus were the ordinary works of his Father, wrought small and swift that we might take them in.”
“Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.”
“At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.”
“That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.”

Source : "Soprano soundtrack" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.
“Why do people avoid being alone? Because only few are in good company when left with themselves.”

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